Readers may recall Dr. Mann’s emotional hullabaloo over an NRO published Mark Steyn editorial here. NRO responded to Dr. Mann’s legal threat today, and the headline is priceless.
NRO’s headline is succinct and to the point, I like it. Here’s the response from NRO editor Rich Lowry:
And this is where you come in. If Mann goes through with it, we’re probably going to call on you to help fund our legal fight and our investigation of Mann through discovery. If it gets that far, we may eventually even want to hire a dedicated reporter to comb through the materials and regularly post stories on Mann.
My advice to poor Michael is to go away and bother someone else. If he doesn’t have the good sense to do that, we look forward to teaching him a thing or two about the law and about how free debate works in a free country.
He’s going to go to great trouble and expense to embark on a losing cause that will expose more of his methods and maneuverings to the world. In short, he risks making an ass of himself. But that hasn’t stopped him before.
Heh, how well can Mike pound sand? Read the whole thing here.
UPDATE: The response from NRO’s attorney to Dr. Mann’s attorney is here (PDF)
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Best response since General Anthony McAuliffe (look it up if historically challenged). 🙂
Heh, heh, heh. Mann doesn’t know what he’s in for if he decides to file a defamation lawsuit. The man has defamed himself over and over again in public forums by his very deviousness and lack of scientific rigor. As such, truth is an absolute defense.
But it is worth a few laughs, anyway.
Wow. . . . .
Does Mann ever sit down and ponder just where some of his actions might lead?
Did it occur to him and his lawyer at all the possible consequences of such an action?
It’s nearly as good as the reply given in Arkell v. Pressdram (1971)
http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/the-fabulous-case-of-arkell-v-pressdram-private-eye.282747/
It a shame that the legal response to Mann from the NRO (see pdf linked to in article) is so strong that it seems very unlikely indeed that Mann’s lawyers will pursue the issue any further.
‘Cos it would be such fun if they did 😉
I hope Mann decides to poke the badger. I’d like to see that fight (mostly for the delicious fallout).
Even so, I think we should be prepared to contribute toward a fund for NRO – should that be necessary – for legal costs.
A courtroom visual aid that would be instantly accessible to a lay jury is the blown up Hockey Stick spaghetti graph, showing Mikey’s “hide the decline trick” of cutting off the line before it starts to descend.
Three cheers for NRO!
I wouldn’t be too eager for this to go to court. Isn’t that how CO2 became a pollutant subject to EPA regulations? If it does go to court, I hope discovery identifies who it is speaking on http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=Jcp40a6IYdY at 1:45 who says he received an email in 1995 from a prominent researcher in climate change saying “We have to get rid of the medieval warm period.” And who the email was from and what influence it had in the creation of the Hockey Stick graph.
Absolutely warms the cockles of my heart. May the farce be with him [Mann]
You see we Brits have more style…
http://www.nasw.org/users/nbauman/arkell.htm
Well, “get lost” wouldn’t be the two words I’d use, but I guess its a legal thing…
Mann doesn’t have the globes to sue. It would end badly for him and he knows it.
Proving once again that you don’t have to very bright to be a leader in Climate Scientology.
You just have to keep chugging the Kool-Aide.
The link to the whole article returns a 404 Error now…
REPLY: either an internal database error or it has been hacked. I’m guessing the former – Anthony
We all need to tweet him and encourage him to fight. Play to his poor-me personality. That would probably work.
Once our little Mickey
went to play hockey
suddenly our climate Mick
fell in love with his stick
his climate science
was declared fault free
as a penguin nesting
at the top of a Yamal tree.
…and NRO’s website is now down.
NRO has completely its marbles, the website that is. It is hosed! I’ve never seen so many drupal warnings – Warning: Table ‘./drupal/watchdog’ is marked as crashed and should be repaired query
“…we look forward to teaching him a thing or two about the law and about how free debate works in a free country.”
If someone ever needed to learn that lesson, that would be Mr. Mann.
Eric says:
August 22, 2012 at 11:27 am
The link to the whole article returns a 404 Error now…
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Itz up right now, just tried it, but it is reporting a security certificate error.
I don’t want Michael Mann to “get lost”–I want him to trip over his ego into a court of law so he’s subjected to the discovery process. And that would truly be priceless.
It will never happen. NRO’s letter was too strong, Mann will back off
Good response, but I would have concluded with the address of the nearest court of proper jurisdiction in case they needed some help.